Chapter 4
a plot for revenge
When Oliver decided it was time to go home, Will was just walking through the door.
"Hi sorry I'm late home, lots of swords to make as usual" Will explained. He looked at Oliver.
"I didn't know we had company" he said, looking at each of us before sitting down.
"I'm Oliver Watson, but call me Oliver, I'm here with Lily, I met her today, pleasure to meet you" said Oliver, he got up and shook Will's hand. Will looked at me; I knew what he was thinking. He was thinking that I must be mad to bring a male friend home, after Dad was so difficult about the last friend I brought home who happened to be a boy, and I was only fourteen at the time.
"Will Turner" replied Will as he sat down next to Elizabeth.
"Well I was just going, so maybe I'll see you tomorrow, goodbye" said Oliver, I didn't want him to go. I felt my heart drop when he said goodbye.
"I'll go with you Oliver" I blurted out
"And where would you want to go at this time of night?" asked Dad
"The Pearl" I replied, I turned to Oliver "yes, The Pearl, I'd like to show you The Pearl Oliver, it really is beautiful, especially under the stars"
"Fine, but be careful, and make sure the crew know you're their" Dad replied.
"Ok" I said grabbing Oliver by the wrist and pulling him out of the door.
We walked past the taverns and all the drunken people stumbling out of the doors all cheered at us for no apparent reason. Oliver shrugged it of with a grin but I was too stubborn to let it be and shouted back as many insults as I could. I was a Sparrow after all.
We finally made it to the docks and I noticed two figures coming towards us but I thought nothing of it. I also noticed a ship called 'The Black Pearl' but it wasn't my Black Pearl. I stopped and stared at it, trying to figure out anything about this ship that was posing as my home. It even had black sails.
"Lily" said Oliver urgently; he took hold of my arm. I turned to Oliver to see that the two dark figures hit Oliver with an oar from a rowboat. The last thing I saw the oar coming towards my head, before I was consumed by darkness.
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I woke up sometime later and found that I was in a brig. It looked exactly like the Pearl's brig, apart from this ship had an eerie feeling about it. I checked my hair for hairpins and was pleased when I found some. I leant on the cell door, trying to see if I could see further up the stairs. I quickly ran to the back of the cell and sat down as I heard footsteps coming down the stairs.
I heard the footsteps stop outside the cell door. I looked up to see who it was. i was faced by two people.
"Nice to see your awake Miss Sparrow" said one person. He had cold blue eyes and wore a ridiculously large hat with a big feather in it. He had a beard and a moustache and wispy hair that stopped at his shoulders. On his shoulder sat a monkey, dressed in a little shirt and waistcoat.
"Who are you?" I asked. I wasn't sure I wanted to know. The other man had brown hair down to his shoulders, he had deep brown eyes that looked all too familiar and I had the feeling that this man looked like someone I know. But who?
"feisty one aint ya?" said the man "Us? Well, this here is my friend Bootstrap, his real name is Bill Turner…" said the man with the hat.
Turner. Will Turner instantly came to mind and I knew that that was who 'Bill Turner' looked like. I shrugged off the thought and listened to the man with the hat tell me his name.
"And considering who your father is, I suspect you'll already know a bit about me" he said.
"And who are you, and what does my father have anything to do with you?" I asked, I wasn't in the mood for mind games.
"My name is Captain Barbossa" he said, a smile growing on his face.
Barbossa, Black Pearl, Aztec gold, yes, yes I knew who this man was just from my father's stories. But didn't my father kill him?
"Aren't you supposed to be dead?" I said coldly, I had hated this man since I first heard the story.
"Well yes, I am meant to be dead…" said Barbossa, he pulled his shirt back off his chest to reveal a bullet wound. "But you see, my monkey here, Jack, he gave me a piece of the gold before I was fully dead, so I didn't die anyway" explained Barbossa. I couldn't believe what I just heard.
"And why have you kidnapped me? How do you know who I am? How did you find us?" I demanded
"Revenge" said Barbossa. "I know who you are because I have been following you round for the past few weeks and you are Jack Sparrow's daughter, if I have you, I have him, your father won't hesitate to come after you, Lily Sparrow and when he does, I'll kill him"
Oh for goodness sake, not another death threat. How many of those does Dad get in a month? He always gets them, but none of them are serious. Oliver. I forgot about him, he was hit first.
"Where's Oliver?" I asked, looking round the cell to make sure he wasn't under my nose and I simply hadn't seen him,
"Oh your friends in that cell" replied Barbossa, pointing to the cell across from mine. Sure enough, Oliver was there, he was still unconscious and was lying on the floor.
"Why have you put us in different cells?" I asked, suddenly I felt like I needed to be with Oliver.
"Couldn't have you two lovebirds together now could I? Thought it'll be fun watching you two pine for one another" explained Barbossa. I was getting sick of him now; I wanted to find out more about this Bill Turner.
"Why is he with you?" I asked Barbossa, tilting my head towards Bill.
"This is Bill Turner, father of a certain William Turner, you might know"
"I knew it! I knew you looked like Will, why are you here though? I thought you were on the bottom of the ocean, because of him" I said to Bill.
"I took off my boots, lass. I was only tied down by my bootstraps; I swam to shore and stayed there. I stayed there until Barbossa came to town and I joined his crew again" explained Bill. He had a soft voice, I somehow knew that I could trust him, but I had the impression that there was more to his story than he was letting on.
"Right" I replied.
"and just in case your thinking of trying anything stupid, missy, we cant be killed, we're under the curse again and we're staying this way until your bloody father and his friends are dead, isn't that right Bill?"
